• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Availability of DOW peak gusts map in hurricane?

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Been looking for imagery showing the spatial variation in peak gusts at low elevation over very localized areas (so a very high spatial resolution dataset at quite low elevation). Would love to find dual doppler analysis from mobile radars, perhaps verified with observations (if a micronet like TTU Stick Nets and platforms were involved, great).

I believe it would be helpful in gaining a picture of how much variation there is in the windfield in intense cyclones even beyond the obvious complexities obstructions/roughness length bring to the very lowest handful of meters (though I'd be quite interested in having a graphic that can quickly show that too) Even if it's for non-tropical widespread events like squall lines/derechos, it would be helpful to have. I've found there's often a lot of confusion and frustration after tropical cyclone events of "it wasn't nearly as bad for me" or "I had much stronger than that value reported". I did a cursory look in journals and at the TTUHRT and CSWR sites, and a few journal articles, but perhaps didn't look hard enough. Anyone either know where I can find such an image, or if nothing else, the files to build such an image myself?
 
Also, the NASA observation towers would seem to offer potential for this type of data. Anyone know where to find a simple image or the archived data for this?
 
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